Hi, now that I managed to get the .flac music files accessible in mopidy, I am having trouble with my playlists. This is my mopidy.conf: <[file] media_dirs = /music/Network/flac/|NAS [m3u] playlists_dir = /music/Network/flac/00_playlists/> The playlists are found and displayed. The tracks all …

I looked further into the matter today. The playlist is in /music/Network/flac/00_playlists The file is called xyz.m3u The folder /music/Network/flac contains different folders, one for each artist, each artist folder contains folders for each album. The .m3u file contains a list of the songs wi…

Thank you for the hint. I tried “mpc ls” on my system. It does not know the command. I am not using MPD at this moment. Hence, I do not quite understand how I can find the right path that should be in the playlist.

In my log, I see a lot of the following messages: Jan 23 23:08:40 raspberrypi mopidy[12550]: ERROR [MainThread] mopidy.audio.gst GStreamer error: Resource not found. Jan 23 23:08:40 raspberrypi mopidy[12550]: WARNING [Audio-2] mopidy.audio.actor Setting GStreamer state to GST_STATE_PLAYING fail…

To install mpc is sudo apt install mpc but you may want to wait until somebody with more knowledge can offer an in depth answer because I’m not sure this is the best way to resolve the problem.

I just made sure to install gstreamer plugins (good, bad, ugly). Rebooted. Now, I do not see the third kind of error (“appears to be a text file”) anymore. The other errors remain and the playlists do not play.

We can handle the spaces and you can can see them being correctly percent-encoded in the log lines. But we can’t handle the wrong slashes - that is not a valid path on your filesystem. The following should work: ../Herbie Hancock/Cantaloupe Island/Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island.flac Relative p…

Thank you! I did not notice that the slashes are in the wrong direction.

Playlists are shown but do not play

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Steve_Lambert January 23, 2021, 9:15am 3

It sounds similar to problem I had with file names, have a look at kingosticks answer here

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Playlists are shown but do not play

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